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I don't know why I haven't started writing before now. I'm 52 this year and have always lived in a fantasy land. Every night for as long as I can remember I play these romantic stories in my head to get off to sleep.
I think it is because I have been alone most of my life so I make up romantic fantasies, living life by proxy if you like.
I quite often read books or watch romantic dramas and think 'I could do better than that'.
I don't know if I can, but just recently I have just started to 'do it'. I thought to myself - just get on the computer and start writing. It comes very easily and I could do it all day and night if I didn't have to work and sleep and do housework in between.
I haven't got a clue what i am doing or if it is any good or if anyone would want to read it but at least I am doing it and it is becoming an almost daily routine. I have set up my laptop literally next to my bed, so I don't even have to get up and go downstairs to write.
I would love to go on a writing course, but I think it is good to have a go first and see what comes naturally before studying any sort of methods.
I have already written an outline of my book with a synopsis of what happens in each chapter and am using that as a guide.
If it comes off it will be a romantic novel about a woman who starts a new life in Cornwall and falls in love with a married man who can never be hers.
It will be partly autobiographical and partly fiction - that way I can write from my own experience and make up the fantasy bits.
Whether or not anyone reads it doesn't really matter as I am loving writing it. |
